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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:44 -0400 Subject: PPR: Re: PPR 1.51 release errata Kenneth Tindle wrote: > David, > > The new release of PPR has two bugs that bit me. > Number Two: > > In the installation tarball, off its unpack root, is the directory > 'z_install_begin'. In file 'install_create_accounts.sh', the > COMMENT variable is loaded with a string with embedded spaces. > Later, this is used in a useradd command directly with the '-c' > switch. > > Nope. This will blow up useradd, as you must wrap a string with > embedded spaces in double quotation marks so useradd can parse it. > I simply substituted dashes for the embedded spaces, and then edited > /etc/passwd directly to put the spaces back after installation. > But this will stop the install cold if you don't poke around, as I > had to do. Well, assuming you don't have the ppr and pprwww users > already made. OK, I have put quotes around $COMMENT in the script. I am going to try to make an RPM binary package of PPR. I will release 1.52 as soon as any bugs I discover during the process are fixed. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center Postmaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106 U.S.A.